Can We Save The Environment With Our Passion?

[bstrom]

Boy's oh Boy's!:laughing:

Sumthing isn't it?

 

[riptides]

.... The US and Europe do not have Malaria because we used DDT to wipe it out...

I suspect malaria to be controlled by climate in vast parts of the US and Europe instead of chemical stimuli.

 

[bstrom]

Um, just for the record and to present the other side. DDT was banned because it kills birds and bats which eat millions of mosquitoes. It also gets in the water and food supply easily and poisons human beings including babies. It has other problems too, but those are the major ones. This is fact. Check it out yourself.

 

[dmccarty]

Darn good thing we still use DDT in this country to keep malaria at bay.....we do, don't we?

Chuck

No not any longer since malaria has been wiped out in the US because of DDT.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

I suspect malaria to be controlled by climate in vast parts of the US and Europe instead of chemical stimuli.

Nope. Malaria was present in the US and in parts of Europe.

Spraying of DDT wiped out the breed of blood suckers that spread malaria.

Later,
Dan

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I agree the taste of money is the most effective form of birth control.

Most things in nature are self limiting.

I agree with the religion aspect of this thread too.

 

[dmccarty]

Um, just for the record and to present the other side. DDT was banned because it kills birds and bats which eat millions of mosquitoes. It also gets in the water and food supply easily and poisons human beings including babies. It has other problems too, but those are the major ones. This is fact. Check it out yourself.

I have checked it out.

From the articles I have read DDT does not harm people. Also the science was very mixed concerning DDT harming birds and other animals. Some studies said DDT did harm bird shells but other studies said the opposite?

If thousands of children were dying in the US every year, and these deaths could be prevented or minimized by spraying DDT, do you think we would have a spraying of DDT?

By the way to minimize the spread of malaria DDT can be sprayed inside dwellings.

Later,
Dan

 

[brin]

I have checked it out.

From the articles I have read DDT does not harm people. Also the science was very mixed concerning DDT harming birds and other animals. Some studies said DDT did harm bird shells but other studies said the opposite?

If thousands of children were dying in the US every year, and these deaths could be prevented or minimized by spraying DDT, do you think we would have a spraying of DDT?

By the way to minimize the spread of malaria DDT can be sprayed inside dwellings.

Later,
Dan

As a child in Mississippi 60 yrs. ago I breathed in not telling how much DDT as crops were sprayed...was and would be again a very effective control not harmful to humans..Same thing with Chlordane for Termites..house treated with Chlordane have no termites to this day but in about 1986 or so it was outlawed and now termites thrive...Kinda makes you wonder...follow the money always.

 

[Chuck52]

As a child in Mississippi 60 yrs. ago I breathed in not telling how much DDT as crops were sprayed...was and would be again a very effective control not harmful to humans..Same thing with Chlordane for Termites..house treated with Chlordane have no termites to this day but in about 1986 or so it was outlawed and now termites thrive...Kinda makes you wonder...follow the money always.

Follow the money where exactly? Is Terminix to blame? Are the termites getting the money? Do you not suppose that just maybe there are folks who have genuine concerns about some of the chemicals we have created? I work with chemicals every day that no one reading this has ever heard of, so I'm not some chemophobic nut job environmentalist, but I don't want my grandchildren sprayed with DDT or any number of other pesticides and chemicals that I myself have been exposed to. I DON"T KNOW WHAT THOSE COMPOUNDS DO IN LIVING CELLS AND NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE! The scientists who actually study these things, as opposed to the "journalists" who "abstract" the findings, always note the undetermined possible problems.

It may indeed be a reasonable, acceptable risk to use DDT to control mosquitoes and other insect vectors in places where insect borne diseases are prevalent. To accuse those who see the balance of risks as tending favoring non-use as somehow wanting to kill babies is absurd, ridiculous hyperbole.

Chuck

 

[bstrom]

I have checked it out.

From the articles I have read DDT does not harm people. Also the science was very mixed concerning DDT harming birds and other animals. Some studies said DDT did harm bird shells but other studies said the opposite?

If thousands of children were dying in the US every year, and these deaths could be prevented or minimized by spraying DDT, do you think we would have a spraying of DDT?

By the way to minimize the spread of malaria DDT can be sprayed inside dwellings.

Later,
Dan

So I would assume you would spray DDT inside your house to get rid of mosquitoes? Nuff said I think.